19., 20. & 22. November 2014: “WORKS AT WORK: solo works”, international performancefestival i Dansehallerne
International performance festival with solo artists, thinkers, students and other workers
How many internships and unpaid jobs have we invested in our future? Should we gratefully accept lousy contracts because we love our job? Is the solo artist her own worst boss? “Solo works” is the first of three international festivals in the series WORKS AT WORK investigating artistic labor as a form of life. Accepting that the charismatic solo artist could be the role model for every self-managing freelancer in today’s creative capitalism, we examine the production of aesthetics and look for solidary acts. WORKS AT WORK has invited renowned artists who each have developed a particular solo practice, where issues like togetherness, fatherhood, authorship, aging and subtle racism find their way on stage. The festival is thought as an international contribution to the Scandinavian performing arts debate, but also to a broader discourse on immaterial labor, project work and the production of commons.
ARTISTS AND THINKERS:
Antonia Baehr (DE), Keith Hennessy (US), Eszter Salamon (FR/HU/DE), Mamela Nyamza (SA), Florian Feigl (DE), Bojana Kunst (SLO/DE), Isabell Lorey (DE), Mikkel Bolt (DK), Kasia Wolinska (POL), Sebastian Kahr Rasmussen (DK), Joanna Tischkau (DE), Cécile Bally (FR)
SUPPORTED BY:
Danish Arts Foundation, Danmarks Nationalbank’s Anniversary Foundation, the City of Copenhagen Performing Arts Committee.
IN COOPERATION WITH:
Goethe-Institut Dänemark, The Danish National School of Performing Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Danish Actors Association, Independent choreographers, Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin, Institute for Applied Theatre Studies Giessen.
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26. August 2014: “Nothing left to Play”, lecture på NGBK under festivalen “Part of the Game”
9.-12. April 2014: moderation af symposiet “Truth & Dare” sammen med Andreas Liebmann på Statens Scenekunstskoles Efteruddannelse.
15.-29. November 2013: kuraterer festivalen “KRIEGSTHEATER – Modelling Wars of Tomorrow” på Skogen inkl. seminaret “Creativity and Authorship in Warfare” på Göteborgs Konsthall
9. Juni 2013: “The Subject on Stage”, samtale med Goldin + Senneby på Overgaden, København
25. Maj 2013: “What is your problem?”, oplæg om mulige modeller for en statsstøttet grunduddannelse i performance i DK, Seminar “Kunstnerisk Udviklingsvirksomhed” ved Peripeti
21. April 2013: “How To Do Things With Facts”, lecture på It’s the Real Thing – Baseler Dokumentartage 13
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Creativity and Authorship in Warfare – a seminar in frame of “KREIGSTHEATER, Modelling Wars of Tomorrow”
What is the relationship between art, philosophy and warfare? Are artists and thinkers the co-producers of military strategies of tomorrow? Can criticality be protected and shaped against misuse? The one-day-seminar on “Creativity and Authorship in Warfare” at Göteborgs Konsthall invites for thought on the employment of creative strategies and critical philosophy in contemporary warfare and presents performances dealing with the invention of catastrophes and documentation of violence.
Seminar Nov. 27 2013 at Göteborgs Konsthall
With: Eyal Weizmann architecht and researcher (UK); Natalie Alvarez Professor in Theatre Studies (CAN); Eva Meyer-Keller performance artist (DE); Rabih Mroué performance artist (LEB); Edda Manga historian of ideas (SE)
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How Do I Feel? a symposium about emotions in global dialogue
An international symposium about emotions on display in the dialogue between audience and stage – you and me – and what effect the emotions have on our communication with others in a global perspective. The symposium aims at exploring the possibilities and risks of putting emotions on stage. The personal and global – micro and macro perspectives on the state of our world – are put on stage and reflected upon as commodity and as well as conflict solver. How do I feel today? Do emotions draw us closer together or do they make us turn away?
Symposium / May 15 – May 16 2012 at CaféTeatret
With: Prof. Dr. Doris Kolesch Theatre researcher – Theaterwissenschaft, Freie Universität, Berlin; Prof. Boyan Manchev Philosopher – SODA, Universität der Künste, HZT, Berlin; Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt Danish performance artist and researcher; Lilian Munk Rösing Associate professor at Department of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen; Anna Mendelssohn Austrian performance artist; Brina Stinehelfer American performance artist; Sanja Mitrović Yugoslavian
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who’s there? a symposium on the subject on stage in reality
The border of the theatre institution is moving towards public space and the public enters the stage: the prostitute, the asylum seeker, the unemployed or the everyday life expert enter the stage in the role as them selves. The common boundary between art and reality is challenged and the illusion of a well-defined artwork and an autonomous subject on stage breaks. But how do we see the subject on stage when he/she no longer (only) plays a role? Who’s then speaking on stage? The director, the political reality, the audience’s prejudices or the human being itself?
who’s there? involves a lecture by German philosopher Marcus Steinweg, lecture performances by Danish students of Performance Studies, dialogues between delegated experts and directors as well as impulses from the international stage art scene.
The European performance scene guests Copenhagen: Swiss-Russian Boris Nikitins lecture performance Woyzeck (2007, recently pricewinning at the Impulse Festival 2009) and the French conceptual choreographer Jérôme Bels’ moving conversation with the Thai colleague Pichet Klunchun, Pichet Klunchun and myself (2005, received Routes Princess Margriet Award).
who’s there? was a collaboration between Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, The University of Copenhagen, The Institute for Arts and Cultural Studies, Warehouse 9, Republique and The Danish National School of Theatre – Continuing Education on the 7th & 8th of May 2010.
who’s there? was supported by The Danish Arts Council.
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